Danger of knowledge

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818

Surprising, indeed

I recently read this quote
‘If you are grateful I will give you more of My Blessings; but if you are ungrateful verily, My punishment is indeed severe.’
I believed it was an usual new age writer, but – with my surprise – I discovered that it is a quote from Quran (14:7).
I asked about it to a muslim friend, and he said to me that – in spite usual prejudice – gratitude and peace are the core of the teachings of Islam, and that we must be grateful to God, not just for what we perceive to be blessings but for all circumstances.
I was really surprised, and I think we need to know better something before to talk about it.

I am possibility

“I am possibility.
What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes. All things are possible. When we speak in love and live by love, truth in love will be our comfort. Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.”
from The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Give thanks

“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.”
Chief Tecumseh Shawnee (1768–1813), Native American Leader

Who really lives?

Limitations

Romanian deep wisdom…

“Be good, but watch out not for believing the world that you can only be good.”

Repeat after me: “I’m free”

Life’s a bitch, and then you die

“You’ll miss the boat if you are scared, Perhaps you’ll fail, at least you dared
You’ll never know until you try, ‘Cause life’s a bitch, and then you die…”

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